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One Shall Be Taken
Two horses–look again– Winged, like cherubim– Watering at a marble trough, Ivy in riot about them. Reality? Silence, bones Saline, a coffin–not a trough– And a tale in the main that Had been uneven, rough, harsh. I’d have done it differently. This … Continue reading
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A Poem on the Death of God
PROCESSIONAL (After Thomas Hardy’s “God’s Funeral”) I. At twilight, a people-train prepared to move. Dead God carried at the front; mourning contagious. I am my own sadness at the death of God. II. I saw Him. He first appeared a man. Then a … Continue reading
Hot Potato
The dookie left the doggie; the doggie left the dookie. For me.
Guitarist in Blue
__________ Your country is vast, But no thing pure. Nothing is. I kiss You, playing both Parts. Off time, A little. Fingers underbug The strings attached. The hole is out front. Wood is at the back. I’m not here, here. … Continue reading
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A Creation Story
__________ It seems to have started as an argument. Nothing became something, rapidly expanding to a whole laundry list of things. Separation and settlement followed. Over time things cooled. Mother got her planets, Father took to the stars. As in any divorce, vast … Continue reading
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Poem for the New Year, 2013: Tennyson’s “Ring out, wild bells”
From In Memoriam (106), by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring … Continue reading
Sun Salutation
_____ True shield of Aten, color of Van Gogh’s Beard, in an eggy apron of aloes My skin I present to you. O mushroom Atomic; aureola at noon; yolk; bloom Atop Earth’s dome of blue: meet your black pupil (That … Continue reading
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Tagged body, imagination, life, literature, matter, mind, poem, poetry, summer, sun salutation, the sun, yoga
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“A Psalm of Life” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Tagged henry wadsworth longfellow, hope, life, poem, poetry, psalm
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An Emily Dickinson Poem
Emily Dickinson’s “Much Madness is divinest Sense —”: Much Madness is divinest Sense — To a discerning Eye — Much Sense — the starkest Madness — ’Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail — Assent — and you are … Continue reading
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Tagged eccentricity, Emily Dickinson, life, nonconformity, poem, poetry, self assertion
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Poem for Summer Vacations
Passage O soul to India! Passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins! Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor! Cut the hawsers—haul out—shake out every sail! Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough? … Continue reading
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Tagged extremity, India, journey, life, literature, ocean, poem, poetry, sailing, summer, travel, Walt Whitman
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Edwin Arlington Robinson’s “Richard Cory” (1897): A Poem on the Turning Wheel of Fortune and Misleading Appearances
Who’s up, who’s down? It can change pretty quickly. And who knows what’s going on beneath appearances? Here’s a poem titled “Richard Cory” (by Edwin Arlington Robinson, written in 1897): Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement … Continue reading
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“Whatever Is”: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Atheist Poem?
Something that people might not know about Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the 19th century author of the frequently assigned feminist short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, is that she was also a poet. In her lifetime she published well over 500 poems. … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, atheist, charlotte perkins gilman, Christian, Christianity, Jesus, language, life, philosophy, poem, poetry, the yellow wallpaper
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“Nothing Staged Can Stay” (A Poem by Santi Tafarella)
before the night’s glittering black curtain the Father of dung beatles moves the moon ——————– What was I trying to do with this tiny poem? For one thing, I was trying to think about the things that … Continue reading
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Tagged astronomy, death, English, life, literature, moon, poem, poems, poetry, Santi Tafarella, theatre
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“Lot’s Wife” (A Poem by Santi Tafarella)
I am the salty sea your once amphibious daughters called home, and all my vital organs are here, in Sodom. Mother, memories, my heart. They are packed in this place, like loaves … Continue reading
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Tagged creative writing, English, Genesis, literature, Lot's wife, poem, poetry, Santi Tafarella, the Bible
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“Many are Called but Few are Chosen”: A Poem by Santi Tafarella
Petition: Scarcity, saith the preacher, all is scarcity, for the earth stays the same size, and the dark oils of its womb do not, like us, multiply. Reply: Verily, God says, verily offspring vary! Verily … Continue reading
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“The World”: A Sonnet by Christina Rossetti
By day she woos me, soft, exceeding fair: But all night as the moon so changeth she; Loathsome and foul with hideous leprosy And subtle serpents gliding in her hair. By day she woos me to the outer … Continue reading
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Prometheus Unbound 